English 102 Your Name:

Research Task #3: Annotated Bibliography

Objectives:
• Practice using MLA format for Works Cited lists
• Develop the bulk of your final Works Cited list
• Critically examine the quality of your sources

Assignment Description:
• For this task, draw on your Working Bibliography (Task #2) to list at least eight sources as if you were writing a Works Cited list in MLA format (use alphabetical order, double-space evenly throughout, use careful punctuation, etc.).
• This time your list should also include formal annotations (or notes) about the sources. Your annotations should consist of 3-4 sentences that summarize the content of the source and comment on its usefulness to your paper. (E.g., mention how the information will support your thesis.)

ON THE NEXT PAGE, I have included a short sample annotated bibliography. The first entry is explanatory; the second one illustrates the principles.

1.
Jansson, M., and L. Laikre. “Recent Breeding History of Dog Breeds in Sweden: Modest Rates of Inbreeding, Extensive Loss of Genetic Diversity and Lack of Correlation between Inbreeding and Health.” Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics 131.2 (2014): 153-62. ProQuest. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. My thesis statement is about new pet breed is not good. This article talks about many breeds exhibit physical problems that affect individual dogs throughout life. This article has a same point with me, so I think it provide me a useful idea for me.
Puja, I. K., et al. “The Kintamani Dog: Genetic Profile of an Emerging Breed from Bali, Indonesia.” The Journal of heredity 96.7 (2005): 854-9. ProQuest. Web. 14 Feb. 2016. This article talks about a breed of dog from Bali, Indonesia, the Kintamani dog. I choose this article because I want to describe a specific pet to argue my point, and the Kintamani dog is a good one.
Louise Becker. The Scottish Fold 1961-1991. Gibsonia. ISFA. 1991. Print. This book describes a popular cat, Scottish Fold, especially, their potential disease. Scottish Fold, is another pet what I want to discuss specifically and is useful for me. However, this book provides information is before 1991. I think time is not very important for my point in this book ,but there will be more new information out of the book.
Hamilton, Anita, and Sean Scully. “Curbing The Puppy Trade.” Time 166.24 (2005): 62-63. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. This work narrates people buy unhealthy puppy in puppy mills and teaching people how to make sure that your new puppy is happy and healthy. This work is scholarly source and it has a strong point to support my project.
Taylor, Judy Sutton. “Anti-Puppy Mill Legislation Across The Country Is Dogging Pet Stores.” ABA Journal (2015): 1. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Feb. 2016. The article discusses how some state in the U.S have passed law banning pet market to sell dogs from commercial puppy mills. Laws information can provide me a strong point to support my thesis statement. The weakness part for me is I don’t understand deeply about these laws, so using laws will be difficult for me.
“Puppy Mill Facts.” Last Chance For Animal. 2014. Web. 2015. The article reports the puppy mills facts which are its conditions, dogs reproduction, transportation and sale. This article is useful, because a real puppy mill condition gives me a strong part to support my standpoint.
Amanda Gossom. Selling Puppies, and a Pack of Lies. The Humane Society of the United States, 2014. YouTube. Web. 27 Oct. 2015. The video tells about what they saw when a organization, the Humane Society of the United States, sent an undercover investigator with a hidden camera into every pet store in Virginia. The video also gives me a real puppy mill condition, I can use both an article and a video, I will have a strong argument, when I merge them.
“How to Find a Responsible Dog Breeder.” The Humane Society of the United States. 8 Apr. 2014. Web. 21 Oct. 2015. The article tells us dogs in a responsible dog breeder, and how we find them. I stand by con point, and the article provide me not every puppy mills are bad. However, the work is not very strong to support the other side. It is useful for me.

Hard Working Student
English 102
15 May 2010
Annotated Bibliography
Author’s last name, Author’s first name. “Title of Article.” [or] Title of Book. Date, Publisher, Format, etc. Provide all publication information according to MLA guidelines for a works cited page. Don’t forget to include the database information if that’s how you accessed your source. Follow this bibliographic information with a sentence or two that summarizes the book or article, especially the part that is relevant to your essay. End with at least one sentence that comments on the work’s strengths or weaknesses and its general usefulness to your project.
Trenton, Patricia, and Patrick T. Houlihan. Native Americans: Five Centuries of Changing Images. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1990. Print. This work compares 500 years of historical information and artifacts with drawings, paintings, and photographs depicting Native Americans and their cultures. The historical information provided is useful, but the book provides no art revealing how Native Americans have viewed themselves.